Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a collaboration between the Stellenbosch University Museum and the Michigan State University Museum on the Ubuntu Dialogues project

Ubuntu Dialogues

to support projects at Michigan State University and at Texas A&M University which measure the costs and pedagogic effectiveness of using network technology in natural sciences and psychology instruction

Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Just Futures Initiative: Creativity in the Time of COVID-19: Art as a Tool for Combating Inequity and Injustice

to support sustainability planning for the Public Philosophy Journal

The Public Philosophy Journal: Phase IV

to support the further development of a Less Commonly Taught Languages consortium across the Big Ten Academic Alliance with the inclusion of Indigenous languages

Less Commonly Taught Languages Partnership

to support the Puerto Rico Disaster Archive

Puerto Rico Disaster Archive

to support the Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico

Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico (AREPR)

for use by the W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, toward a program of ecological research

Ecological Research

toward costs of programs of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research

Botanical Research

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of the world

Plants Initiative

to support diasporic (Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian) digital studies with a focus on graduate students at R1 universities, in collaboration with artists and community members

Diaspora Solidarities Lab

to support sustainability planning for HuMetricsHSS, an approach to establishing humane indicators of excellence in academia

HuMetricsHSS - Phase III

to support a collaborative cultural heritage training and technology program in South Africa

Cultural Heritage Training

for research on the adaptation of the children of recent immigrants

Immigrant Children - Research

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Sean Pue

New Directions Fellowship (Pue)

for use by the Consortium for Inter-Institutional Collaboration in African and Latin American Studies to conduct a workshop for museums and archival institutions to develop a plan for managing the cultural heritage of South Africa

Planning Workshop for South Africa

to support a New Directions Fellowship for April Baker-Bell

New Directions Fellowship (Baker-Bell)

to support programs of ecosystems research and training

Ecosystems Research and Training [Gross]

to support innovations in online journal publishing

The Public Philosophy Journal - Phase II

The Public Philosophy Journal - Phase III

to support a study of the principal impact and outcomes of the Foundation’s faculty career enhancement program

Faculty Career Enhancement Program Impact Study

to support a summer research program in mathematics and ecology

Expanding Links Between Mathematics and Ecology

to support a program of summer science institutes in mathematics and ecology

to support new business model development through change-capital funding

Building Financial Resilience in the Digital Humanities

to support the development of databases that identify slaves and others involved in the Atlantic slave trade

Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade

to support an initiative to strengthen language instruction, in collaboration with the Big Ten Academic Alliance

Less Commonly Taught Languages Partnership with CIC

to support investigations of methods of assessing the nature and quality of contributions to scholarship

Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences

to support sustainability planning for a platform offering data on the history of enslaved people and others involved in the transatlantic slave trade

Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade — Phase III

to support the further development of databases that identify enslaved people and others involved in the transatlantic slave trade

Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade - Phase II

to support the development of a common data model for sharing archival materials related to the involvement of higher education in legacies of the Transatlantic slave trade

On These Grounds: Modeling and Sharing Archival Materials about Slavery

to support the further development and implementation of new methods for assessing the nature and quality of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences

Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences - Phase II

to assist the National Archives in its planning to accession, organize, catalog, and provide public access to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s records

Planning, Evaluation, and Technical Assistance to the National Archives of South Africa

to support a collaboration between the Stellenbosch University Museum and the Michigan State University Museum on the Ubuntu Dialogues project 

to assist the scholarly publication program of the University of Michigan Press

University Press Project

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of The University of Michigan Press

University Press Program

to subsidize publication of humanities books and to encourage use of new technologies by the University of Michigan Press

to continue to support general operations for the New Mexico State University Art Museum

General Operating Support: New Mexico State University Art Museum

to support transfer students in the humanities who are transitioning from Perimeter College to Georgia State University

Community College-University Partnerships

History Course

for use of the University of Michigan in support of its Interdisciplinary Conference Series

Conference Series

to continue support for the transfer of Henry Ford College, Grand Rapids Community College, and Schoolcraft College students in the humanities to the University of Michigan and to strengthen collaboration between faculty in the humanities at both institutions

Transfer Bridges to the Humanities - Phase II

toward the costs of a conference on the topic "Oral Literature and the Formula" under the sponsorship of the University of Michigan

Oral Literature Conference

to support a summer program designed to increase the diversity of graduate student applicant pools

Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars

to support the attendance of US and South African researchers and doctoral students at conferences on affirmative action policy and research at the University of Michigan and the University of Cape Town

Affirmative Action Policy Conference

to support additional travel for US and South African researchers and doctoral students to attend conferences on affirmative action policy and research at the University of Michigan and the University of Cape Town

to subsidize publication of humanities books and to encourage use of new technologies by the Louisiana State University Press

to support the transfer of Henry Ford College students in the humanities to the University of Michigan and to strengthen collaboration between faculty in the humanities at both institutions

Transfer Bridges to the Humanities 

to support the development of a series of new humanities-oriented First Year Experience courses

Borders and Crossings: Exploring Global Questions at the University of Michigan-Flint

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role university humanities centers play in the instructional and scholarly activities of their home institutions

University Humanities Centers

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 